PEOPLE
The group in Autumn 2022
There are currently 30 members of the group: six postdocs, twenty PhD students, three Part III student and one member of support staff.
Lab telephone number: +44 (0)1223 336364
View information of former group members.
Postdocs:
Abi's research focuses on combining high throughput synthesis and machine learning.
Jianzhong works on novel methods for the multicomponent synthesis of amines.
Phil was previously a postdoc in the Knowles lab and is working on novel methods for amine synthesis.
Dr Jianzhong Liu (he/him)
jl2220[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, Peking University, 2018
Advisor: Prof. Ning Jiao
Dr Abigail Barker-Mountford (she/her)
am2833[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, University of Bristol, 2020
Advisor: Prof. Chris Willis
Dr Philip Murray (he/him)
prdm2[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2016
Advisor: Professor Steven Ley
Jean is a member of the iDMT lab and works in collaboration with Astra-Zeneca.
Keiichiro is a member of the iDMT lab and works in collaboration with Shionogi & Co.
Srimanta is a Wellcome Trust Fellow, and previously worked in the Bäckvall and Proctor groups.
Dr Jean Michalland (he/him)
jm2558[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, École Polytechnique, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Samir Zard
Dr Keiichiro Hirai (he/him)
kh761[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, University of Tohoku, 2013
Advisor: Prof. Masahiro Hirama
Dr Srimanta Manna (he/him)
sm2725[at]cam.ac.uk
PhD, Max Planck Institute, 2017
Advisor: Professor Andrey Antonchick
Fourth Year PhD Students:
Vivian Lechner (he/him)
vdl20[at]cam.ac.uk
MSc, Technische Universität München, 2018
Advisor: Prof. Thorsten Bach
Georgia Harris (she/her)
grh37[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Cambridge, 2019
Advisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt
Biswarup Roy (he/him)
br403[at]cam.ac.uk
MSc, IIT Bombay, 2019
Advisor: Prof. Debabrata Maiti
Vivian works on DNA bioconjugation in collaboration with the Balasubramanian group.
Biswarup is currently working on the development of a novel strategy for enantioselective amine synthesis.
Georgia was previously a Part III student in the group. She currently works on photoredox catalysis.
Luke Reeve (he/him)
lar62[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of York, 2019
MChem Year in Industry: LifeArc, Cambridge
Milo is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on high throughput experimentation.
Luke research focuses on the synthesis of amines using C-H activation.
Milo Smith (he/him)
mas297[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of Oxford, 2017
Advisor: Prof. Darren Dixon
Third Year PhD Students:
Alex works on the multicomponent synthesis of amines and alcohols.
Yusra works on photoredox catalysis for the synthesis of azides.
James is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on the synthesis of amines.
Alex Rafaniello (he/him)
aar49[at]cam.ac.uk
MS, University of Melbourne, 2019
Advisor: Prof. Mark Rizzacasa
Yusra Abdelhamid (she/her)
ya308[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of St. Andrews, 2020
Advisor: Prof. Andrew Smith
James Robinson (he/him)
jdr50[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of York, 2020
Year in Industry: LifeArc, Cambridge
Zhang-He Goh (he/him)
zhg21[at]cam.ac.uk
BSc (Pharm), National University of Singapore
Advisor: Prof. Han Kiat Ho
Marcus is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on novel methods for alkene synthesis.
Zhang-He is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on protein functionalization.
Joseph is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on high throughput experimentation.
Joseph Phelps (he/him)
jmp242[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of Durham
Year in Industry: Roche, Basel
Marcus Grocott (he/him)
mg978[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Birmingham
Advisor: Prof. Rachel O'Reilly
Second Year PhD Students:
Hanna is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on DNA functionalization.
Harry is a Herchel Smith scholar and works on the photocatalytic synthesis of amines.
Rachel is part of the SynTech Centre for Doctoral Training and works on amine synthesis.
Harry Waller (he/him)
hw574[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Birmingham, 2021
Advisor: Dr Liam Cox
Rachel Phillips (she/her)
rcp55[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of York, 2021
Year in Industry: RSSL, Reading
Hanna Saik (she/her)
hms63[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Cambridge, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Matthew Gaunt
Michal works on the synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles.
Sarah works on photocatalysis for the synthesis of amines.
Michal Pychtin (he/him)
mp2012[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of Oxford, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Ed Anderson
Sarah Beaton (she/her)
sb2499[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Bristol, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Carmen Galan
First Year PhD Students:
Basia Kraus (they/them)
bmk30[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Cambridge, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Michele Vendruscolo
Markus Böcker (he/him)
mnab3[at]cam.ac.uk
MSc, ETH Zürich, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Dean Toste
Russell Woodger (he/him)
rw698[at]cam.ac.uk
MChem, University of Oxford, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Michael Willis
Ryan Kang (he/him)
rjdk2[at]cam.ac.uk
MSci, University of Cambridge, 2022
Advisor: Dr. Pietro Sormanni
Part III Students:
Zian Wang (he/him)
zw357[at]cam.ac.uk
Lujie Xu (he/him)
lx250[at]cam.ac.uk
David Groves (he/him)
dg565[at]cam.ac.uk
Support Staff:
Chung deals with operational aspects of the group and provides direct support to MJG.